hortatory

• “In pieces which may be called hortatory, the pulpit eloquence, as it were, of a poet addressing his contemporaries on public matters, the utterances of a patriot and a citizen moved by pity for his fellows, such poetry as the _Discours des Misères de ce Temps_ and the”

  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.

• “I learned, from a single sentence, the terms "hortatory", "nugatory", and "fiduciary", which in context were synonyms describing laws with no actual effect.”

  languagehat.com: BEAT THE JUDGE.

• “He employed elegiac verse as a vehicle for every kind of political and social poetry; some of the poems were sung to the flute at banquets and are more akin to lyric poetry; others, described as {gnomai di elegeias}, elegiac sentences, can hardly be distinguished in essence from "hortatory" epigrams, and two of them have accordingly been included as epigrams of Life in this selection.”

  Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology

• “These include instructional booklets, hortatory stories, and advice about safety on everything from disposing of chemical waste to surviving nuclear war.”

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• “But now there are these hortatory statements by content owners, saying no use without permission: is seeing them sufficient to remove our rights?”

  Archive 2009-02-01

• “Unlike "We can absorb a terrorist attack," which taken literally is merely descriptive, the Globe's statement is hortatory.”

  The Wall Street Journal: On the Offensive

• “The conservative scholar James Q. Wilson called it "bland, vague, hortatory and lacking in substance.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Professor Gingrich's Ethics

• “The bill contains hortatory language but is precariously weak in the details.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Reich: The New Finance Bill: A Mountain of Legislative Paper, a Molehill of Reform

• “These resolutions pass because they are purely hortatory, but a resolution with real teeth authorizing a commission will be a much heavier lift.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Commissioning Justice for Burma

• “A “half-assed” bill, as Senator Lindsey Graham so aptly put it (before he made a politically-driven U-turn), will not do the job because investors are smart enough to recognize the difference between a real commitment and a hortatory one.”

  The Huffington Post: Dan Lashof: Will Obama Do More to Move us Beyond Petroleum than Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush?

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